Did he play on Mr. james,” “Blues City Shakedown” and all those early tunes?
Yeah, but it was just hell to get him to play. He hated audiences, and he just hated the whole thing, really. He used to get a chair onstage and just sit with his back to the audience, facing the wall, hunched over the guitar, and that was it-and if he felt like playing a solo, then he’d play, but half the time you’d look over there, he wouldn’t play, so it was real uphill. Was the beginning of the British blues scene as exciting as one would think? See, for me, the whole thing was excit~ ing, because, having never considered it a career, now all of a sudden there was a market for something I’d been playing for 15 years to a wall. Now there was an audience created for it, which was great, so 1 found out my limitations at that time, and I realized that there really was a big difference between playing for yourself and playing for a real audience. All my early efforts were very earnest, but a pain on my ears when I listen to them now (laughs). When did you put your first band together, a
